Apple-shooting toy.



No. 734,661. PATENTED JULY 28, 1 903.

J. F. BLAISDBLL;

APPLE SHOOTING TOY. APPLICATION FILED JAN. 31. 1901. nnnnwnn JUNE 29,1903.

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.iosnrii F. BLAI'sDELL, or BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

" APPLE-SHOOTING Tov.

' SPECIFICATION forming art of Letters Patent No: 734,661, dated July28, 190s.

Application filed January 31, 1901. Renewed June 29, 1903. $erial No.168,661. (rt model.)

To all whom it may concerm.

Be" it known that I, J osEPH F. BLAISDELL, a citizen of the UnitedStates of America, and a resident of the borough of Brooklyn, county ofKings, and State of'New York, have invented certain new andusefulImprovements in Apple-Shooting Toys, of which the following is aspecification.

My invention consists of improved toy apparatus for shooting the applefrom the head of the boy, as in the legend of William Tell, ashereinafter described, reference being made to the accompanyingdrawings, in which-- Figure 1 is a side elevation of my improvedapparatus as arranged on a table for use. Fig. 2 is a front elevation ofa dummy or lay figure boy with a ball representingthe apple on his head.Fig. 3 is an elevationof a stop device for the arrows behind the figure.Figs. 4 and 5 represent details of the stop device. Y

A represents a dummy figure of a boy, with a ball 19 to represent anapple poised on or over his head and adapted to stand upright on a tablea. The apple is attached to the upper end of a small wire at, hinged atits lower end to a stud e, projecting rearward from the back of thefigureA at a suitable distance below the head. A cord or a chain mayserve instead of the wire, the object be-. ing to recover thedummy-apple readily when shot away and to preserve it againstmisplacement and loss at any time.

B represents aflat tray having at one end a transverse flange e on theunder side and another transversefiange fon the upper side. The flange fmay, however, be dispensed with, as the upper edge of the tray willserve for the same purpose-with good results. The purpose of flange c isto overhang the edge of the table on which the tray is placed for useand have bearing against it to prevent the tray from being thrustforward on the table by the impact of the. spring subsequently to itsaction on the arrow. This is desirable, because as the spring has to bemainly held lower than the edge of the table said edge would interferewiththe spring if the tray were not protuberant.'

D is a small bar of wood or other suitable material placed on the flattray transversely and parallel with the fiangef, or practically so, andbeing movable toward and from said flange. The fiangef and bar D arerests for the arrows g, the one being movable, as above stated, to gagethe elevation of the arrow relatively to the line of sight of the apple,this effect being caused by the greater height of bar D than the heightof fiangef, or the edge of the tray in case fiangefis not used, whichvaries the inclination of the arrow according as said bar is shiftedforward or backward. The lateral adjustment of the arrow to such line iseffected by shifting the arrow laterally on its restsf D F represents acatapult-spring for thrusting the arrow, said spring being manipulatedby the hands, as indicated in Fig. 1, so as to strike the end of thearrow ahd'after thrusting it strike the end of the tray for theexpenditure of the rest of its force. The flange 6, bearing against theend of the table, supports the tray against displacement by the spring.

For arresting the flight of the arrow behind the target and so as tofall on the table for more conveniently recovering it any suitable stopdevice may be set up at the extremity of the table; but for a simpledevice of the kind adapted to stand upright and being readilyconvertible into a small package for convenient storage when not in useI provide a sheet b, of any approved textile fabric, having a standardj, attached to each end and provided with suitable foot-pieces 70, withstretcherbars Zdetachably connected'to the standards, making aconvenient stop device capable of standing upright when connected, asrepresented-in Fig. 3, and which may be folded compactly when thestretcher-bars are detached. For the means of detachably connecting thestretcher-bars and standards I prefer to slit the standards, asrepresented at m, and make taper ends it of the stretcherbars adapted towedge in the slits with sufficient friction to hold together for thepurposes of the stop when so set up; but any other mode of connectingthe said parts may be employed.

What I claim as my invention is 1. The combination in toytarget-shooting apparatus, of the tray, two supports for the arrow onwhich the arrow may be shifted for lateral range, and one of whichishigher than movable toward and from it to gage the ver- 10 the otherand is movable toward and from it ticai inclination of the arrow, andthe catato gagethe Vertical inclination of the arrow, pu1t-spring.

and the catapult-spring. Signed at New York city this 25th day of 2. Thecombination in toy target-shooting January, 1901.

apparatus, of the tray, lower flange e of the JOSEPH F. BLAISDELL.

tray, two supports for the arrow on which the 'Witnesses:

arrow may be shifted for lateral range, and i A. P. THAYER,

one of which is higher than the other and is l C. SEDGWIGK.

